# JapanTech — events for entrepreneurs & engineers in Japan

Nov 9 – Nov 15 (JST). Page: https://japantech.info/

## Mon, November 9, 2026

- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317141570/): Mon, November 9, 2026 07:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. Small breakfast meetup in Iidabashi for sharing functional programming projects in Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, Scala and more.
- [Computational Social Choice Team(Talk by Stanisław Jerzy Kazmierowski, University of Warsaw).](https://japantech.info/events/doorkeeper-200313/): Mon, November 9, 2026 16:00 JST, Online. Online RIKEN AIP talk by Stanisław Jerzy Kazmierowski (Univ. of Warsaw) on computing equilibria in Colonel Blotto-style multi-battlefield games.
- [Foodα X Tokyo Summit: Building the Future City Through Food](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5170227/): Mon, November 9, 2026 18:30 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. Project updates, a panel and networking from Foodα, a food-tech co-creation cluster based in Shimbashi and Toranomon.
- [MINATO Global Meetup](https://japantech.info/events/minato-sansin-mgm-20261109/): Mon, November 9, 2026 19:00 JST, Minato City Industrial Promotion Center 9F Free Space (Fudanotsuji Square), 5-36-4 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014. Free weekly English-led networking night in Minato for founders, startup members, professionals and anyone working across borders.

## Tue, November 10, 2026

- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317141572/): Tue, November 10, 2026 07:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. Small breakfast meetup in Iidabashi on vibe coding: writing specs, voice input and comparing AI models and dev tools.
- [S.O.R.A. Summit: Better Skies for Japan Through Utility Pole Removal](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5248253/): Tue, November 10, 2026 13:00 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 日本、〒100-0005 東京都千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. Summit on burying utility lines underground: a panel with Japan's infrastructure minister and Tokyo's governor, plus company talks and booths.
- [Nagoya | Claude Code Meetup](https://japantech.info/events/luma-claudecommunity-nagoya2611/): Tue, November 10, 2026 19:00 JST, Nagoya, Japan. First Claude Community meetup in Nagoya on Claude Code, with a case talk and five lightning talks. In Japanese, in person only.

## Wed, November 11, 2026

- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317141560/): Wed, November 11, 2026 07:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. Small breakfast meetup in Iidabashi for Vim and Neovim users to share plugins, configs and modal editing tips.
- [Industry-Government-Academia Panel Discussion: From Lab to Market, the Future of Deep-Tech Startups](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5220325/): Wed, November 11, 2026 15:00 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 日本、〒100-0005 東京都千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. Euglena's Izumo, Sony's Kitano, UTokyo President Fujii and Tokyo Vice Governor Miyasaka on taking deep-tech startups from lab to market.
- [YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #49 - 2nd Anniversary!](https://japantech.info/events/gatherus-fb45c84f-d282-40ed-a0d5-86d8e1a8d05e/): Wed, November 11, 2026 16:00 JST, TECH HUB YOKOHAMA, 西区みなとみらい２丁目２番１号 横浜ランドマークタワー TECH HUB YOKOHAMA, 横浜市. YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT's 2nd-anniversary edition: talks on Physical AI and Yokohama's ecosystem, plus an English global startup pitch.
- [Snack and Connect](https://japantech.info/events/gcal-1cqjeihehcok5mht496nifhtmg_20261111T1600/): Wed, November 11, 2026 16:00 JST, Shibuya Startup Support, Japan, 〒150-0011 Tokyo, Shibuya City, Higashi, 1-chōme−29−３ 渋谷Bridge B棟. Weekly drop-in startup networking at ShibuyaBridge, every Wednesday 16:00-18:00 with snacks. No registration needed.
- [【HerRise #4: Fueling Growth with Finance & Capital Strategy】HerRise Workshop / Open Day | A Practical Program for Women Entrepreneurs](https://japantech.info/events/luma-633juqlo/): Wed, November 11, 2026 18:30 JST, Shibuya, Japan. HerRise #4 for women founders: a hands-on workshop building a P&L and cash flow statement in a spreadsheet to learn startup finance.
- [Small Group Cafe Chat for Engineers ☕ #3](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317020648/): Wed, November 11, 2026 19:00 JST, Near Shibuya Station, JR Shibuya Station. Small-group cafe chat for software engineers near Shibuya Station, 4 to 6 people in conversational English, LinkedIn-approved.

## Thu, November 12, 2026

- [Tokyo Test Fest 2026](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315247632/): Thu, November 12, 2026 09:00 JST, Osaki Bright Core 4F, 品川区北品川５−５−１５. Two-day software testing conference in Tokyo with workshops, keynotes, and EN/JA talks on test automation and quality engineering for AI.
- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317276494/): Thu, November 12, 2026 11:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. Small brunch meetup in Iidabashi on computational humor: NLP, joke generators and datasets for teaching machines to be funny.
- [qcp Startup Pitch 2026](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5092158/): Thu, November 12, 2026 13:30 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. Science and deep-tech startup pitch contest co-hosted by Tokyo University of Science, with 7 startups, a keynote and networking.
- [Thursday Gathering #404](https://japantech.info/events/gatherus-46ed5b78-6e09-4a63-9dbe-1e9af149492b/): Thu, November 12, 2026 16:00 JST, CIC Tokyo, 虎ノ門ヒルズビジネスタワー15階, 東京都港区虎ノ門1丁目17番1号. Venture Café Tokyo's weekly Thursday Gathering at CIC Tokyo in Toranomon, with sessions and networking, in person or online.
- [TAI x Cohere - Enterprise AI Under Your Control](https://japantech.info/events/luma-ns8bpuiz/): Thu, November 12, 2026 18:00 JST, LegalOn Technologies office, Shibuya Sakura Stage 19F, Shibuya, Tokyo. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and Cohere's Japan team on sovereign, self-hosted enterprise AI, agents and deployment, in Shibuya.
- [Open-Endedness: Can AI Keep Discovering?](https://japantech.info/events/luma-ty1joyk8/): Thu, November 12, 2026 18:00 JST, Tokyo, Japan. English research evening in Tokyo on open-endedness in AI, with talks on artificial life, Lenia and a Picbreeder experiment run by VLMs.
- [Shinjuku | Claude for SMBs](https://japantech.info/events/luma-claude-k18t/): Thu, November 12, 2026 18:30 JST, 快・決 いい会議室 新宿店 HALL B, 東京都新宿区歌舞伎町2-4-10 KDX東新宿ビル3F. Offline Shinjuku event for SMB owners, with lightning talks on practical uses of Claude in small businesses.
- [Sapporo | Claude Code Meetup](https://japantech.info/events/luma-sap-claude-code-01/): Thu, November 12, 2026 19:00 JST, Sapporo, Japan. Sapporo developer meetup with Claude Code case-study talks from companies in and outside Hokkaido, plus community lightning talks.
- [0/1 club Third Event](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5196692/): Thu, November 12, 2026 19:00 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base（TiB）、〒100-0005 東京都千代田区丸の内3-8-3. Five makers present their own hardware projects, from an HDMI signal generator to a relay-based 4-bit CPU, with a social afterwards.

## Fri, November 13, 2026

- [\[107th TrustML Young Scientist Seminar\] Talk by Prof. Mengyue Yang (University of Bristol) "Grounded LLM Reasoning: From Causal Reasoning to World Models"](https://japantech.info/events/doorkeeper-200397/): Fri, November 13, 2026 13:30 JST, Meeting Room C, RIKEN Nihonbashi Office (in-person limited to AIP researchers) and online. TrustML seminar on grounding LLM reasoning with causality, from chain-of-thought evaluation to world models and causality-seeking agents.
- [\[Tensor Learning Team Seminar\] - Talk by Dr. José Ramón Pareja Monturiol (Polytechnic University of Madrid) "Tensor Networks for Machine Learning: Models, Applications, and Learning Methods"](https://japantech.info/events/doorkeeper-200446/): Fri, November 13, 2026 14:00 JST, RIKEN AIP Open Space (AIP members only) and online. Seminar on tensor networks for machine learning: privacy, robustness, interpretability, model compression and learning methods.
- [NAGOYA CONNÉCT #131](https://japantech.info/events/gatherus-d4b0fa24-e690-46dd-8cf3-7dfc8374a0a8/): Fri, November 13, 2026 17:00 JST, なごのキャンパス (Nagono Campus), 名古屋市那古野2丁目14-1. Recurring innovation community meetup at Nagono Campus in Nagoya, with sessions and networking, in person or online.
- [Real-time AI at the Edge: Inference, Kernels and Accelerators](https://japantech.info/events/luma-xkb4ai5f/): Fri, November 13, 2026 18:00 JST, Plug and Play Japan, Shibuya, Tokyo. Three talks on fast, reliable edge AI: Jetson computer vision, agent-driven edge deployment and MoE offloading in LLM inference.
- [Sharpen Your Thinking with AI: A Hands-on Bootcamp to Rapidly Create Business Ideas and MVPs](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5235516/): Fri, November 13, 2026 18:00 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base（東京都千代田区丸の内3-8-3）. 3-hour hands-on bootcamp using AI to create a startup idea or build an MVP, with mentors, for early founders and intrapreneurs.
- [Local LLMs for Coding Study Session in Tokyo vol.2](https://japantech.info/events/connpass-410845/): Fri, November 13, 2026 19:00 JST, LINEヤフー株式会社 紀尾井町オフィス. Second study session on using local LLMs for coding, held at the LY Corporation Kioicho office in Tokyo.
- [Design Matters x Spectrum Tokyo](https://japantech.info/events/luma-y7dshbsc/): Fri, November 13, 2026 19:00 JST, Shibuya, Japan. Pre-event for Design Matters 26 in Shibuya with eight design lightning talks and mingling, in English.
- [Nerd Nite Tokyo #83: Cosmo Bronco](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317098786/): Fri, November 13, 2026 20:00 JST, Study Abroad Pub - Shin Okubo, ＳｈｉｎＯｋｕｂｏコミュニケーションビル B1F, 2 Chome-11-23 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 169-0073. English bar talks in Shin-Okubo: designing electronics that survive space, plus lessons on people learned from horses.

## Sat, November 14, 2026

- [Coffee and Code](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317352976/): Sat, November 14, 2026 10:00 JST, Starbucks in Roppongi Hills Lobby (THERE ARE TWO, PLEASE READ BELOW), 六本木6−10−1 六本木ヒルズ森タワー 1F. Casual Saturday meetup at a Roppongi Hills Starbucks where people bring laptops, talk about what they code, and trade tips.
- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317276503/): Sat, November 14, 2026 11:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. Small brunch discussion in Iidabashi on how LLMs change language learning, with a show-and-tell of custom apps.
- [TORYUMON KYUSHU 2026 Winter](https://japantech.info/events/luma-fxdi1202/): Sat, November 14, 2026 12:30 JST, Fukuoka, Japan. A startup conference in Fukuoka for the under-25 generation, featuring entrepreneur panels, pitch sessions, and VC investment consultations.
- [AI Salon Osaka x OKTech Hackathon](https://japantech.info/events/luma-AI-Salon-Osaka-November--2026/): Sat, November 14, 2026 13:30 JST, Osaka, Japan. Osaka hackathon where teams take the same starter app to production level in 2.5 hours, scoring points per working upgrade.
- [Forward Deployed Engineer Career Night | Current FDEs from GAFAM and Top Silicon Valley AI Companies Speak](https://japantech.info/events/luma-quv54rd6/): Sat, November 14, 2026 19:00 JST, Chiyoda City, Japan. Working FDEs from GAFAM and top Silicon Valley AI firms discuss the job and career paths, followed by networking.

## Sun, November 15, 2026

- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-317276506/): Sun, November 15, 2026 11:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. Brunch meetup at a Iidabashi hotel for sharing open source experiences, projects, licensing and community topics.
- [The 369th Haskell-jp Mokumoku Session @ Online](https://japantech.info/events/connpass-412658/): Sun, November 15, 2026 13:00 JST, Haskell-jp Slack Workspace. Online Haskell work-along session hosted on Slack, with optional lightning talks. Join and leave at any time.
- [Startup Mind Exhibition](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5249023/): Sun, November 15, 2026 14:00 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base（TIB）2階 STAGE（東京都千代田区丸の内3丁目8-3）. Free talk on persuasive presentation skills with startup-minded case studies, followed by Q&A, networking and a poster exhibition.